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12922 semicolons is Remove all ; (semicolons) except if they're inside a string ("", '', ``). Replace with $1 ("[^\\"\r\n]*(?:\\.[^\\"\r\n]*)*"|'[^\\'\r\n]*(?:\\.[^\\'\r\n]*)*'|`[^\\`]*(?:\\.[^\\`]*)*`)|; madprops